The Sun. — London, England, 1864-12-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, 1864. ..., firangs.. Funeral of the Earl of Carlisle, At noon yesterday the mortal remains of George William Frederick, seventh Earl of Carlisle, were deposited in the ancestral mausoleum in Castle Howard-park. In this Romano-Doric building eleven of the ancestors of the deceased Marl have been interred. The catacombs are 64 in number, and the first one was tenanted by Charles, the third Earl, in 1738. The other borials were—Charles Viaconnt Morpeth, eldest son of the fourth Earl, 1741; the Countess, his mother, 1742 ; _Robert Viscount Morpeth, second son of the fourth .tel, 1743 ; Henry, the fourth Earl, 1758 ; the Hon. Charles Howard, second son of the third Earl, 1760; 'the Right Hon. Lady Mary Howard, third daughter of the third Earl, 1786; Caroline Leveson Gower, Countess of Carlisle, 1824; Frederick, fifth Ears of Carlisle, 1825 ; George, sixth Earl of Car lisle, 1848 ; Gaorgiana Dorothy, Countess of Car lisle, 1858, and George William Frederick, the late ,1 and seventh Earl, 1864, making the twelfth burial, land occupying one-fifth of the catacombs. Com pared with the pageants consequent upon the inter• ments of previous Earls of Carlisle, the cortege of yesterday was simplicity itself. 'Throughout life the deceased had a great objection to useless pageantry, and before ha decease he expressed his desire that his funeral might be conducted with as little display as possible. There has consequently been no lying in state, and yesterday there was no grand procession. There was, indeed, an entire absence of all stately form and pomp ; but the deep silence of the vast congregation of the nobility, gentry, yeomanry, and.tenantry, with hundreds of strangers, gave token of their grief. To the chapel itself only 80 tickets were available, and of these only 20 were for the public, generally for the re presentatives of the press ; but is the mausoleum ground 400 tickets were issued, which carried the privilege of a visit to the chapel and through the catacombs after the departure of the mourners. The Borough Bailiff of Melton declined to re quest a cessation from business, preferring to leave the method of observance of the day to the good taste of the public, and it is oely right to say that almost all shops were totally closed after 9 o'clock. The bells of the churches were tolled, and there was a general aspect of mourning. In York the day was similarly observed. The mortal remains of the late earl were enclosed in three coffins—one of oak, one of lead, and the chief one of solid Spanish mahogany. The outer coffin was covered with crimson Genoa velvet. The lid bore a plate of chased silver, bearing the inscription : " George William Frederick, - Seventh Earl of Carlisle, K.G., Born April 15, 1802, Died December 5, 1864." The procession left the castle at half-past 12. Among the mourners were the Dikes of Sutherland and Devonshire, Earl Granville, Marquis of Hart ington, Lords Taunton, E. Howard, F. Howard; Honourables Admiral Howard, Charles Howard, Henry Howard, Mr Da Cane, and others. The body was met at the chapel by the Hon. and Rev. Francis Grey, the late Earl's brother-in-law, who read the service with the greatest solemnityand amid a breath less silence. The chapel was draped with black, and some of the lady members of the family were pre sent who had not formed part of the funeral pro- , cession. Among these were the Lady Elizabeth Las. wiles, the three Misses Lascelles, the Duchess of Sutherland, Lady Taunton, Lady Elizabeth Grey, lady Louisa Cavendish, Lady Begat, and Mrs E. Howard. The conclusion of the service was per formed in the catacomb, which was also draped in black, and lit with a large number of tapers. It is somewhat singular that the title and estates, through seven generations, extending over a space of two centuries, have descended in a direct line from father to son till now the first break occurs. The eighth earl, the Rev. William George Howard, has long been an invalid, end it is more then pro bable he will never enter on public life. The next in order is Admiral Edward Howard, R.N., who has no issue, and therefore the presumption is that the title and estates will ultimately fall to the Hon. Charles Howard, whose son, Mr, George James Howard, married the daughter of Lord Stanley of Alderley a few weeks ago. Upon this young gen tleman it is probable the earldom and estates will ultimately devolve. Sir Roundell Palmer and Industrial Exhibitions. Last Evening a meeting was held at the Maryle bane Court-house for the purpose of advancing an industrial exhibition for the borough of Mars lebone. Sir Roundell Palmer, M.P., the Attorney-General, presided, and was supported by many of the chief inhabitants of the district. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, ex -pressed his great gratification at being honoured with the invitation to preside that evening, He looked upon the movement, l e said, as a most im portant one for all classes, it being purposed to cause the industry, intelligence, and industrial fine arts of this large district of the metropolis to be repre sented before the public in a manner as advanta geous as the industry and fine arts of other parts of the metropolis had been represented. He was not one of those who had had the pleasure of witnessing the exhibition lately held in the North of London ; but from all he had heard that was a very happy beginning of a series of exhibitions calculated to advance the interests and advance the knowledge of those who by a misnomer were called the "work ing classes." Those who witnessed that exhibition were struck with the works exhibited by the labour. ing classes, and all felt that the principle on which the exhibition was founded contained the germs of the great advancement of all classes. A resolution passed at a meeting held in September last to pro mote this movement said that " Working-class in dustrial exhibitions are eminently calculated to pro mote progress of invention and industrial art, to bring out the talent of working men and women, and to inculcate a just Tide in their works." At such an exhibition more than anywhere else would be seen what could be done, lsecanee there was shown what had been done without the edvantages of great capital and leisure—in fact, under great dis advantages, and it was impossible that those who were in like circumstances to the producers and ex hibitors of such things could look upon the handle work of their fellows without feeling greatly atimu. lated to do the same. Thus would the interests of invention be advanced, and the artificers and me ohßnics who were the foundation of all acciety and all invention would be advanced as well. It was, he thought, too frequent a thingthat those who in vented had the fruit of their toil taken by these who employed them, and it was but just that the artificers should have a fair field open to them to give them the opportunity to bring forward their own production, It was clear that such an exhibition in promoting inventive art needed protection. He was told there was a fear that the publicity given to inventions would tend to the prejudice of invents tors, and he was informed that there was a move ment on foot to obtain for inventors the same privie loges as were accorded to exhibitors in the internee tional displays, that the exhibition of inventions shall not be deemed a publication to the prejudice of the inventor. This seemed a just principle, and he would do his best to throw this amount of protec tion around the working man. Greatly pleased as he was with the promotion of invention to which these exhibitions tended, it was more satisfactory to him that there was a tendency in them to bring out the talent of working men and working women. After all, however vaeuible as veers the products of in vention, there was something more necessary and advantageous still—the moral elevation and happi ness cf that class on depe n d e d, and if which society such exhibitions tended, as he was sure they did, to stimulate in the working man a laudable ambition, they would tend to increase in them self-respect, the power of self-government and of self-conesest, and to make them better appreciated by other classes. These would be greater advantages than would be derived from any stimulus given to inven tion. It could not be doubted that when the beau tiful productions of the labouring classes in hours after exhausting toil were viewed by other young men, those young men would strive to emulate the example thus set them, and seek the high self caltivation found in such pursuits. And it was not a mere negative advantage which was thus ac• quired. It was certainly too true that thesb who had not much space in the places where they dwelt were surrounded by inducements to spend a " com fortable evening" where they were likely to meet with more harm than good. Bat the negative good which the exhibition!' inculcated, in taking men from these evils, was as nothing compared with the positive good when they spurred men on to take pleasure in cultivating in themselves the sense of beauty, for they tended then to the improvement of the inner man, they made the men worthy of honour by others, and they made the men feel ajust respect for themselves. He did not like the term "working classes." He felt a jealousy of it, for he believed he was rather a hard working man. All were members of one class in that sense of being working men, and all classes could take pleasure in viewing the productions of any one portion of the community. It would, indeed, be a miserable thing if one class of society should be far separated in feeling from another; and it would be a miserable thing if those who were well off should look down upon those beneath them in circum stances. Those who held a position in life in con nexion with intellectual pursuits could go to such an exhibition as it was proposed to form and see things which they could not make themselves, but in which they could recognise high intellectual gifts. The man of learning would find himself surpassed in works which he would be glad to have the power and skill to do, and so would be brought to under stand the intellectual community which existed be tween those who were differently placed in society. All those views had been mach better expressed than he could express them by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and to those remarks he most cor dially subscribed, adding that he should not find more pleasure in anything when he could take even the humblest part in elevating those whom they were pleased to call the "working classes." The learned gentleman was loudly cheered on the conclusion of this address. The Ray. Eardley Welmott, Mr Nicholay, Mr D'lffanger, and several other gentlemen addressed the meeting, and resolution➢ in favour of the Exhi bition having been passed the meeting concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman. It was announced at the close of the meeting that the hon. and learned gentleman had subscribed £lOO to the guarantee fund. The Representation of North Warwickshire. COLESHILL, Dec. 13. The election of a knight of the shire, to supply the vacancy. caused in the representation of this division of Warwickshire, consequent on the death of Mr. Spooner, took place here to-day. No oppo sition was offered to Mr. Davenport Bromley, and the attendance of freeholders was small, there being not more than a couple of hundred persons present. The hon. candidate rode up to the hustings on horseback, accompanied by Mr. Adderley, M.P. The usual formalities having been gone through, and the High Sheriff (Mr. Beech, of Brandon), having put the question as to whether any elector had a candidate to propose, The Right Hon. C. B. ADDERLEY stopped to the front of the hustings, and said that he had a gentle' man to propose as a it and proper person to repre sent the constituency in Parliament. He named Mr. Davenport Bromley, of Baginton-hall, in this county. In discharging the duty cast upon him on that occasion he could not help indulging the ex pression of his own feeling, and he was sure it was shared in by everybody in the county, of sorrow at the occasion which had brought them together. Mr. Spooner had passed a long life of usefulness; his integrity and other estimable qualities had endeared him to all who ever came into contact with him ; his business capacity, his sound sense, gocd flees of heart, and adherence to his principles, as well as his private virtues, would cause him to be long remembered. (Cheers.) The best consolation was that he died at a good old age, while all who knew him might cherish the recollection of his good example. (Hear, hear.) It was not easy to supply the place of such a man as their late representative, but he believed that Mr Bromley would do so with distinction as regarded himself, and with credit and satisfaction to the county. (Hear.) Mr Bromley was not so young a man or one so unknown as to rfquire any eulogy or recommendation from him; he was a man well known, a man of mark in the county, (Hear.) He had been an eye-witness of our great campaign in the Crimea ; he was a foremost man in the hunting-field, and an actual participator in all those field sports which were distinguished from those of other nations, and he (Mr Adderley) did not doubt but that the same gallant spirit which distinguished his hon. friend in the hunting-field would also distinguish him in the House of Com mons. But he had been engaged in more important services ; he had himself organized institutions for the benefit of his poorer falloff countrymen with success and usefulness. Those who were acquainted with,the working of the Poor Law in the crowded population of the metropolis could bear testimony to his hon. friend's having volunteered services, though be was in a private station, which were a great public advantage. (Hear, hear.) What we want is a man to represent the county who will be able to express our minds for us as well as we think or wish we could express them for ourselves in the Legislature of the country.:(Hear, hear.) It has been said that party strife was at an ebb, and it had been suggested that as the coming Session would be the last before a general election, that great party questions would not be mooted. He was not quite sure that that would turn out to be true ; it might turn out that the approaching general election would tempt some men to moot those questions which they had the faculty to raise rather than settle. (Hear.) But if it was true that Mr Bromley came before them without any party catch-words—compounded with any of those election cries which were only resorted to by men who felt that they had little capacity for dealing seriously with the details of public business. —(cheers)..-he, for one, liked Mr Bromley all the batter for it. (Hear, hear.) He has put forward, in a manly and straightforward address, his views on various public questions. He has stated himself to be a Liberal Conservative, and that he belongs to the party of Lord Derby, but without factiously adher. ing to that party while it remains in opposition. (Cheers.) It has been asked by the organs of the great Whig party, What is the Übe of a Liberal Conserva tive ? (Laughter.) Those who make that cry think that nothing but a thoroughbred Whig will do, and that it is to that party we are indebted for all the reforms which have taken place. (Hear.) It was true that that party, whose vocation it is to fish in troubled waters, must have had a hand in everything that comes to land, but he doubted whether that party to which Mr Bromley professed to belong, had not rendered much more valuable service. Mr Bromley says he is a Liberal Conser• vative ; that is the party whioh is not perpetually changing, but which deals with public questions in a spirit of caution and reverence. (Hear.) It takes the long life of a Whig, it is not until after a very long political life that he comes to a maximum of wisdom and says, " Rest and ba thankful." (Laughter.) But the Liberal Conservative starts in life with some such maxim, and through his life and public conduct bears in mind the maxim of wisdom to let well alone. He remembers he has to deal with the intricate and delicate constitution of his Court. try, the lot of which has been such that institutions have grown up under it which are the envy of the world, and he will not change those institutions until there is a call for some change, and then he will con duct those changes with deliberation and care. The right hon. gentleman next alluded to Mr Bromley's address, which he declared to be manly, straight. forward, and satisfactory. He told them that he would have a careful regard over the public expen diture, and if he did so he would do much more than many of those who made that pretence their stalk ing-horse, and were absent on every supply night in the House of Commons. Bat while his hon. friend made the promise to which he (Mr Adder ley) had referred, hi: also said that he would not do so in such a way as to impair the effic:ency of the public service. (Hear, h ear .) those Some sapient cr iti cs would eferpaermsoannswdhido wnootusldeemmaktoe msaoidrethpartoTtnhiey pr ses ; but be aware of the fact that any mere political propos sition in the abstract was nothing but a delehion. Mr Bromley said that he was for a reduction of the malt-tax, and in that he (Mr Adderley) agreed with him ; and all that anybody had been able to say against it was that the tax was so large that it could not be removed at once. (Hear.) With regard to the injustice of it no defence was offered. The right hon. gentleman alluded to one or two other topics adverted to in Mr Bromley's address, and concluded by remarking that there were many othersubjects which might be discussed, and which Mr Bromley would have to deal with in the ensuing session. In conclusion he had only to remark that he would stake his credit that the in• terests of the county and of the nation would be well card for by his hon. friend, Mr Bromley. Mr SAMPSON LLOYD, of Birmingham, seconded the nomination. No other candidate having been proposed, the Sherlf declared Mr Bromley duly elected, and he was " girt with the sword" according to ancfcnt. custom. Mr BROMLEY, who was received with much cheering, then came forward to return thanks. He said—l feel I come before you under very great disadvantages, although I have just received the honour of being elected your representative, because having been so ably proposed and seconded, any re marks which I may make must be very inferior to those which have been heard before. I cannot but remember that when these hustings were last erected there stood here a man who was far superior to nue self and whose great ability far better fitted him to be your representative in every respect—in addition to that he was well known to you all, and had shown himself to be a man of ability, which I grieve to say lam not. I have now to explain to you, so far as I can, what my principles and policy will be when in Parliament, although I have nothing to add to what has been said by Mr Adderley and Mr Sampson Lloyd. I am a Conservative (cheers)—and when they described me as a Liberal Conservative I was very glad that they put in that adjective, be cause that actually describes my principles. (Cheers) I am satisfied that in these days extreme opinions —on whatever side—can be of no use whatever. They are completely isolated—either ultra• Radical or ultra-Conservative opinions—from the common r sense of the great mass of the people. I think that Earl Russell was not particularly happy in his nunc dimittis, as I may call it, which has been al. luded to by Mr. Adderley. I consider that that was little bit of a slip on his part as an old Whig ; but at the same time I feel the force of that remark, and I consider it much preferable to the democratic maxim which has been, I am sorry to say, approved by talented men who ought to have known better, and to have known that they were promulgating a dangerous doctrine when they said, " Whatever is, is not right." (Cheers,) We must remember that in these days civilisation is increasing, and consider it as much madness to keep all as it is, as it is to turn everything upside down. I have said that I will support Lord Derby,lbecause I recognise him as the great head of the Conservative party. (Cheers.) I have said that I will ofler no factious opposition to Lord Palmerston, because although I do not approve of his Administration, I recognise in him the man whom this nation has respected and honoured more than any other man alive. (Hear, hear.) I respect him because he is a true Conservative at heart. (Cheers.) There are those with him in the Minis try who try to pull him another way; but as I have said before, he is a true Conservative, and he will die one. (Cheers.) I am in favour of strict economy in our armaments by land and sea—especially by sea, because there I consider has been the greatest waste and the most profligate expenditure. (Hear.) I am for having useful vessels—not vessels con structed or seat out merely for an admiral to be comfortable in. (Hear.) We want fights ing ships. These must be built of iron— a recommendation which will no doubt be grateful to the ears of this constituency. (Hear.) You have heard of the Victoria, which has just been fitted out for the Mediterranean, and which has been shown to be utterly useless in the capacity for which she was intended. (Hear.) If, as some of the defenders of that arrangement say, she was only to be a sort of floating office for the admiral and his clerks, what was the use of encumbering her with 1,000 men and 100 guns ? If she was intended, as some of her defenders assert, as a hospital ship,why not put up a white flag and send her out in that capacity ? For my part, I consider that one of the most marvellous instances of profligate expenditure combined with Admiralty stupidity I ever heard of in my life. (Hear.) At the same time, I did not wish it to be understood that I am not for keeping up the defences of the country in a thoroughly effective condition. I say, while you economise, do not dis arm. Other nations have their eyes upon you, and with no pleasant expression. They are jealous of your liberty, jealous of your prosperity, jealous of your wealth, and of your state of peace. We must therefore take care, and not disarm. Depend upon it, if John Bull does not keep a look-out in his house, and take care that he has his gun loaded on his mantlepiece and his dog loose in the yard, his house will not long be safe. (Cheers.) lam for the removal of those taxes which press heavily on the general industry of the country. Among these is the malt tax. (Cheers.) I will tell you what I consider the position of the malt tax to be at this moment. It seems as if the Government had said we are to have free trade in this country for the benefit of everybody and everything except the British farmer—(cheers)—but on him we will levy a protective duty for our own benefit, and we will trust to his apathy not to find it out. (Much cheering.) But, unfortunately, or fortunately for himself, the British farmer has found it out —(laughter)—and, what is more, he makes him self heard about it, and states his case with much clearness. Therefore, I say there is just about as much force in the reason the Government give for keeping up the malt tax, as if some thieves were to rob a man of his money, and then, when he expostulated, to say, "No doubt it is a great injuss floe, but the fact is you have such a lot of money that we mast have it. We cannot do without it," (Hear.) So the Government say, " Although we are robbing you, although ere know we are acting in direct op position to the great principles of free trade that we have been talking so much about—(hear, hear)—yet you have such a lot of money that we cannot do without it, and will keep the tax on." I say that this is no argument. I say that in some way or other, though it is not for a sucking politician like myself to suggest how, there must be some mode devised of making up the deficiency that could be caused by the repeal of this tax. (Cheers.) With respect to church rates the present position of the question is not very satisfactory, although it might become much more unsatisfactory if some measure were passed by which the people were not left so much to themselves in this matter as at present. They are now subject to the will of the majority, that is a very great thing; and until some more practical scheme be suggested than has been hitherto it will be better to leave it alone. (Cheers.) I think this grant to Maynooth had better be left in its present state ; I am as staunch a Protestant as any man here—(cheers)—yet I question the policy of promoting party strife and discussion by keeping up the agitation year after year. (Cheers.) Gentle men, I feel that I labour under the great disadvan tage of being personally unknown to many of you ; it has been urged by a portion of the Liberal press that lam not a Warwickshire man. I beg to say that I am as much a Warwickshire man as any one here. (Cheers.) One hundred and fifty years ago the Mr Bromley whose house I inhabit was Speaker of the House of Commons; another member of his family represented the borough of Warwick. (Hear.) I consider, then, that if lam not a Sitar• wickehiro man I don't know who is, (Cheers.) The hon. gentleman adverted briefly to one or two other unimportant objections which had been urged against him. Those who had held him up to deri sion and ridicule had, he said, done him a great in justice and wrong, but he hoped hereafter to satisfy the constituency that ho honestly endeavoured to do his duty. The hon. gentleman retired amid much applause. Mr T. S. WRIGHT, manufacturer, of Birming ham, then stepped forward and asked Mr Bromley whether he would support a £6 franchise for boroughs Mr BROMLEY replied that he would not. Mr WILIOET next asked the hon. gentleman whether he would veto for a £lO franchise for counties Mr BROMLEY replied in the negative. Mr WRIGHT next inquired if Mr Bromley was prepared to propose a substitute for the present chure'o-rate system ? _ Mr BROMLEY replied—l promise that when lam Prime Minister I will entertain that question. (Laughter.) Mr WRIGHT asked how Mr Bromley proposed to make up the deficiency caused by a repeal of the malt-tax ? Mr BROMLEY—I have only to state that when I am Chancellor of the Exchequer I will also enter tain that question. (Great laughter ) After one or two other questions of a like charac ter had been put, in the replies to which Mr Brom ley very adroitly tuned his querist, a vote of thanks was passed to the High Sheriff, and the assembly dispersed. City Sewers Commission. Yesterday, at 12 o'clock, a meeting of the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London was held at the Guildhall, under the presidency of Henry De Jersey, Esq., deputy chairman. Among the members of the oourt present wo nor ticed Alderman Wilson, Deputy Farrar, Deputy Elliott, Deputy Owden, Deputy Jones, Deputy Obbard, Deputy Cork, Messrs Geo, Walter, Chaplin, Cox, Botterill, Nind, J. T, Young, Israel, Banning, &c. After the transaction of some routine business, a deputa- tion waited on .the Commissioners in reference to the order made by the Lord Mayor upon the parochial authorities of St Dionis Backchurch, to carry out certain re pairs to the parish church, it having been reported by the district sur veyor that one of the walls of the structure was in a dange rous state. Mr YOUNG, sen., the district surveyor, attended the court and reiterated the evidence he had given before the Lord Mayor with regard to the dangerous state of the wall and the necessity which existed for carrying out the repairs. Mr T, A. ITANKEY, and other members of the deputation who attended on behalf of the vestry of the paribh, asked that the matter might be allowed to stand over, in order that evidence might be brought forward to contradict that given on the opposite side. The CHAIRMAN said the Court had no power to interfere with the order of the Lord Mayor. After some c nversation it was resolved to place the order in the hands of the contractor to the commission, to carry out the repairs to the church required under the order of the Lord Mayor. The Commission to-day proceeded to open tenders for lighting with gas the public lamps within the City for the term of one year from Jan. 31, 1865. The subject was con. sidered within closed doors. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. ROME CIRCUIT.—CHELMSFORD, Dec. 13. (Before Baron Channell ) The Court proceeded to dispose of the business yesterday morning at ton o'clock• John Williams, 40, was charged with feloniously and maliciously setting fire to a stack of wheat and three stacks of straw, the property of William Matson. Mr Martin conducted the prosecution. This was rather a remarkable case. The prosecutor is a farmer at St. Osyth, in the neighbourhood of Colchester, and he is a member of a society for the prosecution of felons in the district. It appeared that about twoyears ago a quan tity of geese were stolen from one cl the members of the association, and a reward of £lO was offered fur the detection of the guilty party. This did not lead to any result, but some time after the robbery had been committed the prisoner had a quarrel with another man and accused him of being concerned, with himself, in stealing the geese. The result of this was that both were taken into custody and tried with two others for the robbery, and they were convicted and the prisoner was sentenced to 12 months' imprisoment. At the expiration of his sentence the prisoner returned to St. Osyth, and he applied to the prosecutor for the reward of £lO that had been offered by the association for the discovery of the persons who had stolen the geese, but he was told, of course, that he had no claim to it, and it appeared that he also re fused to give him any work, and there was no doubt that there was a general unwillingness on the part of the farmers in the neighbourhood to employ the prisoner, and this seemed to make him very angry, and he was heard to utter threats against the prosecutor. About ten o'clock on the night of Nov. 21 the premises of the prosecutor were all safe, but ab ut an hour afterwards several stacks were dis covered to be on fire, and in the result property worth £2OO was destroyed. With regard to the guilt of the prisoner, it. appeared to be ostablished by the most conclusive evi dence. It seemed that on the night of the fire the prisoner went to a public-house kept by a person named Coles, about a mile from the prosecutor's farm, and asked him to give him some lucifer matches, but he refused to do so. He had previously told him that he would hear of something before morning, and after he had refused him the lucifers he said it did not signify, as he knew where he could get some, and he added that he intended to burn down Mr Matson's premises. The witness told him he had better not do so or he would suffer for it, and the prisoner said that he did not care, he would rather be shot than continue in the state he was, and that he was bent upon doing what he said. The prisoner then appeared to have gone to the cottage of a labouring man named Willett, who was his brother-in law, and he knocked him up and asked him to give him some Inciter matches. He gave him three matches, and the prisoner said they were not enough, and Willett then gave him several more. When he had got the matches, the pri soner said that ho was going to set fire to Matson's stacks. and that ho should be in Thorpe police• station on the fol io ing night. The prisoner then walked away, and the witness Willett returned to his bed, and very soon afterwards the alar.n of fire given. It appeared that on the day after the fire the prisoner went to the police-station at Thorpe, and told Mr Bankee, the inspector of police who was on duty, that he had set fire to Mr Matson's stacks, and when he was asked how he came to do such a thing, he replied that everybody was " down" upon him, and that he could not got any work, and therefore he was determined to do what he had done. The prisoner made a similar statement to several other persons. When ho was called upon for his defence, he merely said that he could not get any work and he did not know what to do. The prosecutor and other farmers had all agreed together not to give bim any work, and he thought it was hard to starve. He was willing to work, but they would not give him any to do. The Jury, without any hesitation, found the prisoner Guilty. Evidence was then given that the prisoner had been on twc previous occasions convicted of felony, and sentenced to 6 and 12 months' imprisonment. Baron Channell, in passing sentence, said that the prisoner had been convicted upon clear evidence of a very wicked crime, and the only ()reuse he appeared to make for his con duct was, that the prosecutor and the other farmers would not give him employment.. It might be advisable that per sons should have an opportunity of retrieving their charac ters after coming our of prison, and of obtaining employ ment, but he was not prepared to say that the prosecutor and the other rarmers were not perfectly justified in refus ing to employ a man who had been twice convicted of felony, and who they believed was not likely to do any good. How ever this might be it was no excuse for the prisoner's con duct, and having regard to the serious character of the offence he felt himself compelled to pass a revere sentence, which was that he be kept in penal servitude for 15 years. The prisoner, who had conducted him in s a el n f i w m i p th ud v e e n ry t g to r n ea e : a e t ze is la t i he ed best thing that was ever e d lf oln r , o he n af t no e rk ry my d oe u ui, r n i ra n ro g yy t l h ol e irfde,.;, trial,,th William Stockton Bertie, 19, pleaded guilty to a charge of feloniously setting fire to a stack of barley, the property of Helen Anne Tasker. He was sentenced to six years' penal servitude. When the sentence was pronounced, the prisoner called out, "Thank you, any lord. I hope you !nay sit there till I come back." Henry Augustus Munns, a private in the Royal Marines, Charlotte Turner, wwaitshcihnatregnetdtowmituhrdfeelrohneioru. wounding Mr Watford prosecuted. The prosecutrix, a rather good looking young woman, it appeared, was in the service of a Mr Nicholson, a woollen draper at Chelmsford, and Major Masters, Royal Marines, to whom the prisoner was servant, lodged in the house, and the prosecutrix was engaged to wait upon him, and she thus became acquainted with the prisoner, who appeared to have paid her attentions and to have expressed a desire that she should marry him. The prosecutrix did not seem to , and thi s grea tl y exc it e d hthaeveprgiisvoennerh,iNmvhaonwyaesnchoeuarradgetmoenuttter threats of violence against her. About a fortnight before the transaction in question took place, the prisoner met the prosecutrix walk ing with a young man to whom she was engaged to be mar ried, in the New-road at Chelmsford, and he went up to them and said to the companion of the prosecutrix, You are the fellow I want," and struck him, and the prosecutrix was very much alarmed at the violence of his conduct. On the 11th of October it appeared that the pro secutrix was making the bed in Major Masters' room, when the prisoner came in and accused her of having told some thing about him to his mistress, but she denied having done so, and told him to leave the room. Immediately she did so the prisoner put his arm round her neck and inflicted a very severe wound on her throat with a razor. The prosecutrix screamed and ate mped on the floor, and Major Masters went up to see what was the matter, and the prisoner ran past sho r a tl e y g a ra ft v e a r t w in a g rd h s im tak t e o n d i o nt i o t a Ho custody, and when he was told w h at he was charged with he himaidlmonogtuhttai time, f t e hl h e a e p n r h d o o s u e n s c o e n w .w t heh x had a a a d been done it, and h e at the same time inquired if the pros ecutrix was dead. When he was asked what he had done with the razor with which the wound had been inflicted, he at first denied having had a razor in his possession, but he afterwards said that he might as well tell the truth ; he had thrown the razor into the river as he walked up the London-road, and he intended to to have thrown himself in. Tile prisoner put several questions to the prosecutria with a view to show that there had been an improper intimacy between them, and that he had given her a great many pre , lents, and she had promised to marry him. The prosecn trix, however, positively declared that there was not any truth in the suggestions made by the prisoner. The prisoner put i n a long written statement, in which he imputed most di sgusting conduot to the prosecutrix, for which there did not appear, to be the slightest foundation. He also declared that at the time he committed the act, he was not in a right state of mind, and did not know what ho was doing. The J ury found the prisoner guilty of wounding the pro secutrix, with intent to do her grievous bodily harm. The learned Judge Kid he would take time to consider what sentence should be pronounced. A DAY'S SPORT IN DEYONSIIIRE. — Last week a shooting party, consisting of the Right Hon. Lord Methuen, the Rev, E. A. Sanford, and E. A, Sanford, of Nynehead Park, Wellington, killed in two covers at Pugham (in this county) 90 pheasants, 44 hares, and partridges and rabbits numbering about 200 head, in the course of a few hours. The total extent of the two covers is but seven acre., and belongs to the worthy quire of Nynehead. — Tivorion Gazette. [ADVERTISEMENT.] Hollovray*s Ointment. All verities of ulcerations, bad legs, sores, wounds, and erup. !ions can be cured by the diligent use of the cooling, sooth ing,and healing unguent. The old and often failing fashion of strapping the edges of ulcers together with plaster has entirely given way before the more reasonable treatment by Holloway's Ointment,which builds up from the bottom of the ground with witind and healthy granulations ; these gradually grow until they reach the level of the surface, then contract, harden, and immediately become covered with new and wholesome skin. The proper application of this ointment diminishes the iniammation, causes the un healthy discharge first to grow thick, then to cease, when the swelling disappears and the natural shape is restored. TYE EASTERN VETROPOLITAN RAILWAY. The engineer to the Commission, Mr Wm. Haywood, laid before the meeting a report stating that he had, in pur suance of instructions, examined the plans deposited for the Eastern Metropolitan Railway. The railway was to start from a junction with the Metropolitan Extension Rail way at the point where it crosses beneath Aidgate High street, which was a few yards east of the Minories, thence it was to continue its route along Aidgate to the City boun dary, along Whitechapel and the Mile-end-road to the western side of the Regent's canal; its total length being one mile and three quarters. It wa■ to be entirely under ground, th• present surface levels would be inclined, and the levels of the rails within the City would be about 34 feet beneath the surface, and the engineer to the company con sidered that it would not bo needful to open the ground at more than one place in Aidgate, and in such a:manner as not to interfere :materially with the traffic. Two lines of rails only were to be provided for. There was to be an exchange station at the junction with the Metropolitan Extension, and when both railways are made it would enable the journey between the Bow-road and the west, north- west, and south of London to be accomplished without leaving the railway system Provision had also been made to enable the junction to be effected with the Thames Tunnel lines, for which bills had this year been deposited, so that communication between the City and the:south-east of London may be had by its route. Treks for the labouring classes were to be provided, the fares not to exceed one penny per passenger for the whole distance. Owing to the great depth of the railway, the tunnel would be below the sewer in Aldgate,'and it was expected by the engineer to the railway that it would be but little disturbed by the works. His (Mr Haywood's) opinion was that it would have to be reconstructed, but that its present lines and levels might be maintained afterwards and the drainage of the houses would not be interfered with. The company was to be formed under the Railway Con struction Facilities Act, passed during the last session of Par liament, by which it seemed that the railway might be, under certain special conditions, constructed under a certificate from the Board of Trade, which, when obtained, became in corporated with the act above named, and the two consti tuted the act for the purpose of the company. The form of certificate had been adopted by the company, and all ob jections to it must be made before the Ist January next. It appeared to him that the clauses in the certificate in respect of the opening and crossing of pavements, and for construct.. ing sewers within the City, required modification. The matter was referred to the Improvement Committee to consider and report. SANATORY CONDITION OP THE OITY. Dr. Letheby presented the following report on the sana tory condition of the City : "To the Hon. the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London. Gentlemen,—The inspectors' returns which are before you relate to 168 houses that have been inspected, and I submit about 15 places for sanatory improvement. "I have to direct your attention to a matter which is of the greatest importance to the statistical returns of sickness for the City. For some time past the returns of fever and febricula made by Dr. Reed in the medical relief book in one of the western districts are at variance with the results Of my own and the inspector's returns—as last week there were three cases of typhus fever and 10 cases of febricula returned in Dr. R'ed's book. I have made especial inquiries into them. The results are that I cannot find any single case of the existence of typhus fever—and, although there is scarcely any form of sickness in which there are not feverish symptoms, and thertfore recorded as feverish, yet there is no case among them—less the 10 of febricular— that can be considered in the light of a fever case of any variety of form. " I have recorded the particulars of each of the cases,and I direct your attention to this master for two reasons; first, because any erroneous entries in the returns might vitiate the statistics of the subject ; and secondly, because the public may be unnecessarily alarmed by a tupposed preva lence of fever, " The markets and slaughter-houses have been duly in spected, and the officers have condemned 4,4111b5. of meat as unfit for human food, It consisted of six sheep, two calves, five pigs, 34 quarters of bsef, and four joints of meat; 9721bs of it were diseased, 611bs were putrid, and the rest was from animals that had died from natural causes. " The mortality returns for the week show a considerable decline from the number of the preceding week, and they are also much below the average. Last week the num ber of deaths in the City was 51, the average for the corresponding week of the last nine years being 59. The chief causes of death were as follows :—Pulmonary cen suroption, 6—pneumonia, 3—bronchitis, B—hydrocephalus, I—continued fever, 3 —scarlet fever, 4—measles, I—and whooping cough, I—making together seven ceaths from tubercular diseases, 11 from inflammatory affections of the lungs, and nine from diseases of a zymotic character. " The number of births registered in the City in the week is 52, 26 being boys and 26 girls.—l an, &0., (Signed) " H. E. LETHEBY.' A copy of the report referring to the sickness returns was ordered to be forwarded to the West London Union. Some further business was disposed of, and the Court adjourned. STATE OF TRADE, MANCIIBOTER., Dec. 13.—There has not been much busi ness, but prices are firm, and in some descriptions of goods there is a tendency to improvement in prices. The amount of businEss:done in shipping yarns has been small,and where spinners have been compelled to sell rather lower prices have been accepted. Prices, however, upon the whole, have been tolerably firm, Many buyers are waiting for tele grams (now due) in anticipation of the overland mail from India, and this is one reason why the market has been quiet. Should the advioes prove favourable, it is expected we shall have ooneiderably more business doing. In home trade yarns we have had a steady market, and a fair business has been done at last Friday's prices. Sellers of doubled yarns re port rather more business. The cloth market has been very firm, and prices continue to improve. The improvement is most observable in the class of shirting suitable to India. The business to-day has been but small, but manu facturers exhibit great firmness. The latest letters to hand from India were written on the arrival of the worst news from this market, on 13th Oct. last, when prices had been depressed by rumours that America was likely to elect a peace President, and consequently the telegrams now due from Calcutta, and which will be of a later date, are ex pected to be more encouraging. Messrs I. Slagg and Co. report :—" Since last Tuesday prices have shown a harden ing tendency, The general disposition, however, of buyers, has been to avoid operations, and we close to-day with but a moderate business, at our full rates of last week." LEEDS, 13th.—The woollen cloth markets this morning have been of the came quiet character as for the past few weeks. The attendance of buyers was small, and there was not the full number of cl Milers from the surrounding dim• trict. Tweeds and spring meltons were sold to a moderate extent, as were ordinary black oloths. In the white cloth hall a few hair lists changed hands. In both a few trifling purchases of heavy goods were also made. At the ware houses the borne trade is dull, but there is a little more doing by some of the export houses. The manufacturers are upon the whole tolerably well employed, and there is no material difference to note in the "niece of wool, yarns, or goods. NOTTIN GII•11, 13th —There was a rather limited attend anus at this exchange hall to-day, but the demand for lace yarns was firm, and the full rates of last week were main tained. The demand for hosiery yarns was moderate, and previous rates were realised. In silks not much alteration. There was scarcely anything doing in brown nets, but no reduction can be quoted since Friday. ROCHDALE, 12th.—The quiet feeling which we have lately had to notice as more or less prevailing in the flannel trade here appears rather on the increase. The warehouse trade of the past week has been rather limited, and to-day's market was thinly at,ended by buyers. Not much fl innel changed hands, the purchat..!s being of a retail character. Prices, however, were well maintained. The Yorkshire goods trade is also less active than we lately had to notice, and to-day's market was a poor one, Owing to the period of the year when stocktaking and preparations for settling accounts oecuty a good deal of attention, it appears probable that we shall have slack markets till after Christmas. Wool though in brisk demand keeps steady in price. MISSING Sitar.—The Luil (Spanish ship), with cargo ex Cadiz from London, sailed from Gibraltar on ilia 28th of October for Malaga, and has not since loon heard of. SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TlMES.—Already the Message of the newly elected President of the United States has been de livered to Congress, and it will shortly be before the public of this country. Very seldom has a poli tician had it in his power to iseus a document of more importance to the world. It has been often said with truth that an American President is an autocrat for tour years. It he has a will of his own, hr cau assert it against Ministers, and Senate, and Heine of Repreeentativev, and State Governors and State Legislatures. The only check on his policy is the passive resistance of the people, or the fear that if he becomes unpopular his chances of re-elec tion will be lost. Tnis second consideration cannot affect Mr Lincoln, for he is certain of his reign for another period of four years, and, according to precedent, must then retire from the throne. Ex cept, then, from the irregular influence of public opinion, be need anticipate no control from this time to March, 1869. He can do almost every thing; he can prevent almost evelything ; and this is a time wheu Every decision involves the lives of thousands of man and the squandering of vast sums of money. It is natural to look with interest on the deliberate expression of such a man's opinions at a time when he has received the highest honour which his countrymen can bestow, and is able to address them with the consciousness that his past policy has been accepted by the great mass of the nation. Elated by political success, freed from anxiety for the future, certain that his name will be enrolled among the few Presidents who have received the honour of a re-election—an honour which has been conferred on no man since General Jackson—Mr Lincoln stands before the world independent and powerful beyond what is granted to ordinary states men, The Northern people have chosen him, and seem to have a singular confidence in his honesty and independence, if not in his genius. They are themselves broken into parties, agreeing in nothing but the desire to save the Union ; and whatever might be the course of policy chosen by the President for his second term of office, there would be no section strong enough to oppose him. The Federal politicians have been for some time speculating oa the policy which the forthcoming Message is to indicate. The extreme Republicans have been anxious, apprehending that the candidate whose success they did so much to insure may swerve from the doctrines to which he was thought to be devoted. The more moderate section of the Lincolnites has been correspondingly hopeful, hint ing that Congress wili not be urged again this De cember to that. policy of relentless war which is the creed of the Abolitionists. The belief that the Message will exhibit an assumed, if not a real, mo deration was general at the latest dates. Wnen General Butler made a speech in New York recom mending an offer of reconciliation, and an amnesty even to the leaders of the South, the conviction that he spoke with authority, or under whet the French call "inspiration," Was so general that the price of gold immediately fell. Whatever may have been the knowledge possessed by this officer of the Presi dent's intentions, his speech served to elicit an indie cation that new offers of peace would not be viewed unfavourably in New York. There is a sense of relief and of hope at the prospect of something like a negotiation with the enemy, which shows how ready the great mass of the people are to make any terms that will restore the Union. It is no t f or us to gay whether this demonstration of opinion has had an effect on the President's mind. A few days will show whether Mr. Lincoln holds the forfeiture of the whole landed property of the South and the forcible emancipation of the negroes as acts already complete, or whether he considers that his supreme power authoriz.ei him to unmake as welt es ma k e decrees, and to restore to the rebels by one Procla mation what he has taken from them by another. But we can only give for what they are worth the speculations of the American politicians them selves. These are generally to the effect that since the result of the late election was known, Mr. Seward has gained in influence i over the Presi dent, and that the Message will indicate an agree ment with that statesman's views. One newspaper states, as if well informed, that Mr. Lincoln will repudiate the factionswhich would establish the present conflict on a sectional basis, and" will t a k e strong national ground, upon which Democrats and Conservatives can have no hesitation to stand and rally." The conclusion to which the Northern press seems to have come is that the Message, whil e de claring the President's intention to continue the war, will give hopes of some kind of negotiation with the South, and perhaps of such an invitation as General Butler foreshadowed. Inc people of this country know, for they are told it by the Fe derals every day,how little their opinions are valued and hew much their advice is suspected. Although the bloodiest and most wasteful war in modern his tory is running its course in accordance with our anticipations and contrary to the uni versal prediction of Northern politicians, yet we shall be told we know nothing of America and wish only evil to Americans. Let it be so; but, though our words rney be of little avail we will utter them as a duty we owe to two com munities with which we have long lived in friendly and mutually beneficial intercourse. We sincerely trust the rumours prevalent respecting a modificae lion of Mr Lincoln's policy are founded on truth. Firmly believing that this war, unless ended by negotiation and mutual compromise, must go on until the South be made, as one fanatic proposed, " a howling wilderness," and the North prostrated financially and commercially for years, we can only welcome with pleasure anything that promises re conciliation. What the terms are to be—what rela tions, political or social, may prevail between corn. ruenities now so hostile, can only be settled by themselves. But this is certain—that no harm can come from a cessation of the strife and a proper dis cussion of the questions between them. Better any way of settling the difficulties which may have arisen than the ravaging of Georgia by Sherman or of Tennessee by Hood, and the rotting away of two fine armies iu the mud of Petersburg. To negotiae Lion it must come at last, end the sooner the inevitable resolution is taken the better will it be for America and the world. In this matter the English people, whatever the Federals may think, are quite disinterested. All that our countrymen have dwelt upon from the beginning has been the needlessness, the evil policy of a war of conquest, and there are few Americans who, if in the early days of 1861 they could have foreseen the task before them, would not have joined President Buchanan in bidding the South go if it wished it. We, the bystanders, saw things more clearly than they, the actors.. and we see them more clearly now. Moreover, if out 'motives were suspected four years ago there is no reason for a similar doubt at present. Both Federals and Confederates thought us de pendent e.pon America f or our very ex i stence. That notion must now be dissipated. We have proved that we can do without the cotton of South, and we cannot be accused of begging the Federals to yield their claims in order that we may feed the workmen of Lancashire. If they fight for a few years longer and ruin the industry of the South the cotton crops of the world will be raised in our own dependencies, and givetthis empire a monopoly of the supply for a generation at least. So far as selfish policy might prompt a wish it would be for the continuance of the war. Nor has Eng land lost by the contest as regards general come merce. In spite of blockade s an d p ro tectionist tariffs in America the exports of this country have increased beyond all expectation. There is no rein. son of which we need be ashamed that we should with this bloodshed to cease. With men of the present age, however, humanity is not a mere empty name, but a feeling which really sways the opinion of nations, and disgusts them with slaughter when they aro not maddened by actual participation in the affray. It is this feeling., and no political self ishness, which prompts the hope that North and South may compose their dfferences. PosT.—Advertisements occasionally appear in those weekly newspapers which circulate the most extensively among persons to whom the acquisition of wealth would be peculiarly acceptable, wherein a philanthropist who burns to do good by stealth but would blush to find it fame, announces that on receipt of a dozen postage stamps enclosed to certain initials at a certain address, generally a post-office or a coffeehouse, he will t ransm it p er re t urn a d ozen distinct and infallible recipes for speedily amassing a fortune. If the euTlcion could possibly be sup posed to enter the reader's head that the advertiser had the remotest desire of gain, the question would naturally suggest itself how the possessor of the secret of making a speedy fortune in a dozen diffe rent ways comes to be reduced to the position of having to seek for funds by tho sale of these valu able recipes at a penny a piece—why does he not reduce them to practice for his own letnefit ? But persons for whose benefit these philanthropists con struct their advertisements are believed to think too well of their species ever to harbour so invidious a thought. They would as soon think of a-king the fortune teller iu rage, who undertekes for a penny to point out where and how secret treasures of untold gold are to be discovered, why she does not appro priate the precious deposit herself, and apply a small portion of it in the purchase of decent app. Fel. We confess we have never seen any of these invaluable secrets for making a fortune, and don't know what they ate like; but we should imagine that one of them roust consiat in buying odd lots of champagne wholesale at auctions, and selling it re tail at the various race which take I lace during the season. Thi s sor t o f tra ffi c , i t a pp e a rs , w ill b el i kely to yield a profit o f something like 2,000 per cent. on each transaction , and if that is not the way to aisles a fortune with all the rapidity that could be &aired by the most sanguine speculator, we don't of e chauTagn e :d ru nk kliOW The quantity • appears to be such that there are absolutely 11° limits to the wealth that may thus be acquired, It would appear from the case of Abrahams v. Attenborough, which was tried by the Court of Queen's Bench on Monday, that chain; pagne may even be purchased at the very m odere price of 12s. 9d. a dozen, and sold at the racecours at a guinea a bottle. It has been asked—leiow can a genuine picture of one of the old masters p ossess ie so ranch value when the best judges are often unab origie.a e l to tell whether any particular pice is an or a copy ? It the quantity and the quality of the gold in an alleged counterfeit sovereign is so Equ al t ) that of a genuine one that you cannot tell the' apart by the nicest test, what difference of int rioste value can there be between them ? Similar queri es suggest themselves with regard to chanapegne• ° v . ° would have thought that the mouths belongi e g , ` ° the pockets which could disburse a guinea for a sin' ale bottle of champagne would know the gcnuiet; article when they tested it, and be able in a wome n _ to distinguish it from epueious. If they cannot c,° this, as it seems they cannot, then the ioference 1,3 that the counterfeit must be very like the orig inal It is said that there is more champagne e.:rutik 1 1 the world in ono single day than the w hole yiel" of the champagne country would amount to fro 11) .. the accumulated vintages of 20 years. The brawl.: Swiss grape, cut of which excellent champagne said to be manufactured, appears to have a faun' dable rival in the equally celebrated Putney gen se : berry. If there is,:2o times as much charop a gn drunk in a day, taking the world over, as there Is produced by the champagne vineyards in a Y ea % one would suppose that every drop must be dra ine r out of its native locality the moment it is fi t f° e export, and that anybody applying there for a bottle would be in the same predicament as the trav elle ; who stopped at Epping to taste the famous sausage, and was told he could rot hare any, for the sig, nl ,, ficant and suggestive reason that " the Len"... coach had not come in." It appears that.certaill champagne warrants had been pawned in 186.4 1 with the defendant in the action menti oned above. In May last these warrants were put uP for sale at Messrs Debenham and Storr's in Covent-garden. How it was that in the surnale r season, when champagne drinking is part Of the normal state of things, eager specuiator,t anxious to make a hasty fortune by clearing 2,o°_, per cent., would not invest in this metaphorical g ot o mine, does not appear. The champagne bad to q° a , -begging. "No one appeared to venture on it ru bulk," so it was attempted to get it off in ana l lots of a dozen or two. The plaintiff Abrahanaa.in: vested to the extent of a couple of dozen. seems to have encouraged the defendant to ace ° , him and make him an offer of the whole cinentit'7 on hand, and " ultimately it was agreed betweent them that the plaintiff should have the remainder° 12s 9d a dozen, but it was afterwards made 13 dozen. The defendant in the course of conversation' said the wine came from Switzerland, and weave r / good, and as the Derby and Bath races were coming off, it would be a good thing for him." The plaint also swore that " this wine suited people who it ' t : tended races. It is sold on racecourses at a gain e „ a bottle and under," and we dare say when t, % weather is warm, and there is much demand, i t sold at auinea a bottle "and over." The facts an ; issue of the case are of interest as illustrating the mysteries of the champagne trade, and pertictila rl' e as furnishing an infallible recipe for making a large fortune in an incredibly short space of time. If 1 " . „ wine, and any amount of the same sort, had b ee n bought by one knowing what to do with it just 00 0 tore the races were coming on, and sold it at 2, per cent. profit immediately afterwards, and thew the proceeds turned in the same way again sad ag ate at the successive races through the year, and s e ° s during subsequent years, the heaps of gold than would be piled up by this process is the course of single decade are perfectly astounding. The 1 1 511 thetical farthing put out at compound inter ee t ; Anna Domini 1, and amounting by this tilne ho countless globes of gold as big as this earth, is t ." only parallel worthy of being placed in contraet witll , so marvellous a phenomenon. Something bi tte t ", however, is generally sure to turn up in the sW ee ra eat draught ; and this excellent champagne f r° ar Switzerland, warranted to realise about 2,000 P i , cent. profit on the racecourse, had been Eo unl ock © as to get into Chancery. When the plaintiff sven t . eg , Fenning's wharf with his warrants to get the Wi ', he found that no less than five injunctions had 5t „. tached themselves to it, and held it in their g rip The worst of it was that he had sold it before 00 had obtained corporal possession of the article. T ll O keeper of the Grand Stand at Epsom was ito bet c twelve dozen at 255, per deem. The defence so, that not the wine but only the warrants were sol e ) and that the defendant did not warrant his wet rants, but only agreed to cell them as he held them' His counsel impeached the patriotism of the plain tiff' tiff for having " extolled awls champagne el' - ignored the Putney gooseberry ;" but his burnt and his eloquence were alike thrown away, As jury returned a verdict which gave back the tiff the £4O he had p a id, together with £26 " 3 e wages for not being able to com pl e te his contr ael e . with the persons to whom he had told the win %en the injunctions are got rid of, this ebn i fs pagne will no doubt be consnmed at the races De' season at the rate of a guinea a bottle. COUNTRY ]MARKETS, ------ LIVERPOOL—TUESDAY. trY There was a fair attendance of both town and courlaji millers and dealers at our market to-day, and a very business done. Wheat was in fair request, and at about id. same price as last week. Flour neglected, but firmly bele. Oats and oatmeal barely made late prices, with a dull 131'1.0. Barley, beans. and peas weie rather lower. Indian c° 31 cheaper, and more offering. MONMOUTH—UESDAY. The local markets have been well attended by both b' , lla s and sellere during the last six or seven days, and there vr, been a considerable business doing. English wheat c , ° for mands a readier sae,, and former rates are maintaineowja best sorts. Barley was in fair average request. Oats 0 gA beans were held firmly. The average quotations 5r follows 9 1 Wheat, white 5s 3d to 5s 8d I 8ar1ey...... 3 s 3d to 05 8J Ditto red..... Os Od to Os Od Oats ....... 2s 'A to '2O MARKET HARBOROUGII—TuEsDAY., ao pe , White wheat, 41s to 455; red, 38s to 42s per 3 u t '„ 29 4 Malting barley at 31s to 33s per qr.; grinding, 27 8 per 30 st. Oats, old, 26s to 28s; new, 23s to 25 6 1' st. ; beans, 36s to 42s per qr. LEEDS—TUESDAY. • icee l The arrivals of English grain at our market tb!, s , o f A were good. The demand for wheat to-day was et" v o' retail character, and last Tuesday's prices were not . 0 terially altered. Fine barley at about previous rates'isot inquiry for inferior descriptions. Oats and beans AS quoted. 39s llid p e wl.* Averages—Dec. 12—Wheat —Oats —Beans 378 9.1 d ..,....-- —Peas ..34s 224 ...... —Barley 298 6d —Rve —s d Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE , D ec lq• Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton...... • 1 1%• via Marseilles: ......... ~an• 6. Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet........ „• 19 7.,', ‘ 7 g.' Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. - 1 .,f; e 7,.. 19 , China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton• i i , lo ;. 21 , via Marseilles • • ••u e Falkland Islands - Dee' ig Gibraltar, via Southamptca. .. nee. • ' India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton••,,,—,, 21. via Marseilles..••pee. ‘i/. India (Bombay), via Southampton ...... P ee. 21. via Marseilles Portugal.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton.... ................ 1:11 e l C l lo'. via Marseilles ...... D ec '- 1 ' 0 . .. • D e c. Newfoundland . Oporto and Vigo . ............ •„,e0 U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet ... • ...........••Dec , b U.S. r acket..•• no .ll. o ) . by Canadian packet: - V aii . lt: W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .......... .' e , 1 3 ' . pe 6, West Indies and Pacific. . ........ ' Dec. 1 Z. Bahamas (via New York) .................... 1 , 1 , 50 2 1 .. v V , Bermuda (ditto) Cuba and Mexico Births. viv je" LAY.—On the 9th inst., at ]-1, Queen's-gardens, I'' park, the wife of H. N. Lay, Eeq., C. 8., of a son. na i r LITROIN.—On the 11th inst., at 3, Merrion-square , " lin, the Lady Lurgan, of a daughter. t, D 1 PEAOJCLE.--012 the 12th inst., at Hertfor d-stree. fair, Mrs. Peacocke, of a daughter. k oil er ' TATTERSALL. — On the 11th inst., at Hyde-Par .° Mrs. Edmund Tattersall, of a daughter. MAYOR DAlrsorr.— M on rri th a e ge le s t . h inst st ,t' () MaY" r ; Church, u G rg e ah o l ta r ,ge Palace. .ogardenFrederick, o h n vD Villas, i wl second aso, nE, s n o , :i i 13 of g t : 0 \ 3 4 2 e il " t oi r ll :ki i - i t s a e v : l e i:: el " ! S ' t ° d i a . WILBRAHAM—MARRIOTT.—On the q l3 " th o in st ",.. 0/ o ' 4 George's, Hanover-: pare, Henry Wilbraharo, 0 gad and late Fallow of Trinity College, Cambridge, to daughter th of Christopher Martiott, Bel. D BL I ssijluaCeHnsri BLOCK.—Oa Deaths. 13tor iet, yainueleßliolhthardinßsti.,,xkat, JG.pre.e,nalif:leld, I nl v a r ot 1, On the 10th ine„ John Denhawt I¢7. B:3 : 7l : Sn p —Oal lace, Priory. grove, South Lambeth, "g: . nodd , DoDD.—On the 12th inst., in Grosvenor.plsee, Ge e. '' 4eq., J.P., F.R.S., formerly M.l'. for Maidston_ ...,,cre,,, LANarki,NE —On the 10th inst., at The Vineyard, 11' ford, Nicholas Lanwarne, E-q , aged 54. W l ' ge. It o PAszxowicz —On the 12th inst., at the I'irso.nera „rico rington, Wells. Somerset, the Rev. i tsi .1:' Parzkowiex, M. Ph., LL.D., aged 50. QU p i a L r fr ia —On ------------ , I , , -A . 3. un Sur; (Ace 4 ` .., 0 of D,o. 112, Strand, Printer, at I the c oon/ Strand, Ai the rreCillOt of the S.sv)y. . London : PrlnZed and I'o:dished by WILLIAAI A i S V I O. 1 ij , i AliddlcoeS.—Weducodsy, Decen3l,o ; , a a g t , Id, a:ok-terrace, itegooei